Loreto
Maynas Province
Iquitos

Iquitos

Iquitos is a city of 380,000 people in the Amazonas region of . For travellers, Iquitos offers a vast selection of activities not found elsewhere in Peru, such as Amazon boat rides and great wildlife viewing.
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  • Type: City with 466,000 residents
  • Description: city of Peru, capital of Loreto region
  • Also known as: “Capital of the peruvian amazon”, “The branch of heaven”, “The paradise of the amazon jungle”, and “The peruvian venice of the amazon”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Casa de Fierro and Estadio Max Augustín.

Photo: DiverDave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La , located in the city of Iquitos in the jungle of , in front of the major square between Próspero and Putumayo streets, is a large iron residence built during the rubber boom at the end of the nineteenth century.

Stadium
Photo: Andre 1102, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Iquitos, . It is the home ground of the football team AD Comerciantes FC, of the Peruvian Segunda División along with Colegio Nacional Iquitos and several other Copa Perú teams from Iquitos and the surrounding region.

Park
Photo: Percy Meza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Punchana.

Suburb
is the capital of the in the Maynas Province of the Loreto Region in northeastern , in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle. It is a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Iquitos, located on the Amazon and the Rivers.

Iquitos

Latitude
-3.7494° or 3° 44′ 58″ south
Longitude
-73.2444° or 73° 14′ 40″ west
Population
466,000
Elevation
107 metres (351 feet)
IATA airport code
IQT
United Nations Location Code
PE IQT
Open location code
67887Q24+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27434277
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3696183
Wiki­data ID
Q193289
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Iquitos” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Iquitos”
  • Akan: “Iquitos”
  • Arabic: “إكيتوس”
  • Aragonese: “Iquitos”
  • Armenian: “Իկիտոս”
  • Asturian: “Iquitos”
  • Aymara: “Iquitos”
  • Azerbaijani: “İkitos”
  • Basque: “Iquitos”
  • Belarusian: “Ікітас”
  • Bengali: “ইকিতোস”
  • Breton: “Iquitos”
  • Catalan: “Iquitos”
  • Cebuano: “Iquitos (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Iquitos”
  • Chinese: “伊基托斯”
  • Czech: “Ikitos”
  • Czech: “Iquitos”
  • Danish: “Iquitos”
  • Dutch: “Iquitos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكيتوس”
  • Esperanto: “Iquitos”
  • Estonian: “Iquitos”
  • Finnish: “Iquitos”
  • French: “Iquitos”
  • Galician: “Iquitos”
  • Georgian: “იკიტოსი”
  • German: “Iquitos”
  • Greek: “Ικίτος”
  • Guarani: “Iquitos”
  • Gujarati: “ઈક્યૂટોસ”
  • Hebrew: “איקיטוס”
  • Hindi: “इक्विटोस”
  • Hungarian: “Iquitos”
  • Indonesian: “Iquitos”
  • Irish: “Iquitos”
  • Italian: “Iquitos”
  • Japanese: “イキートス”
  • Japanese: “イキトス”
  • Kannada: “ಇಕ್ವಾಟಾಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Икитос”
  • Korean: “이키토스”
  • Latin: “Iquitum”
  • Latin: “Urbs Iquitorum”
  • Latvian: “Ikitosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Ikitas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ikitosas”
  • Macedonian: “Икитос”
  • Malay: “Iquitos”
  • Marathi: “इक्यूटोस”
  • Moksha: “Икитос”
  • Nauru: “Iquitos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iquitos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iquitos”
  • Norwegian: “Iquitos”
  • Ossetian: “Икитос”
  • Persian: “ایکیتوس”
  • Polish: “Iquitos”
  • Portuguese: “Iquitos”
  • Quechua: “Ikitu”
  • Quechua: “Ikitus”
  • Quechua: “Iquitos”
  • Romanian: “Iquitos”
  • Russian: “Икитос”
  • Scots: “Iquitos”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Iquitos”
  • Sinhala: “ඉක්විටෝස්, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “ඉක්විටෝස්”
  • Slovak: “Iquitos”
  • Slovenian: “Iquitos”
  • Spanish: “Capital de la amazonía peruana”
  • Spanish: “El paraíso de la selva amazónica”
  • Spanish: “Iquitos”
  • Spanish: “La sucursal del cielo”
  • Spanish: “La venecia peruana del amazonas”
  • Spanish: “San Pablo de Nueva Napeanos”
  • Swedish: “Iquitos”
  • Tamil: “ஐகியூடோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Икитос”
  • Telugu: “ఇక్విటోస్”
  • Thai: “อิกิโตส”
  • Thai: “อีกีโตส”
  • Turkish: “Iquitos”
  • Ukrainian: “Ікітос”
  • Urdu: “اکیتوس”
  • Uzbek: “Ikitos”
  • Venetian: “Iquitos”
  • Vietnamese: “Iquitos”
  • Volapük: “Iquitos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Iquitos”
  • Welsh: “Iquitos”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊基托斯”
  • “Iquitos”

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